Close. It was actually the move command, I believe. Since DOS didn't
have a rename command per say, so it escentially just copied the
file(s) in question to the new name, then deleted the old one(s).
Unfortunately, there is no way to do that in indows, at least not
with the point and click interface. If you wanted to experiment with
the Windows XP command line, though, that same command would work
there, and JFW plays nice with that. Nicer still if you tweek the
settings a little.
James, List Admin At 10:48 PM 9/24/2006, you wrote:
Judith, I think he knows this. What he's asking is, isn't there a similar way to change a common element in a whole lot of *file names*? No, there isn't, not in Windows. But in DOS, the operating system that ran most PCs before Windows, you could do this with a command you typed at the command line, which was the main thing that appeared on your screen, all alone, if no program was running.
I forgot the exact syntax that would be used for something like this, but I sort of remember it like this. Let's say you have ten files whose names begin with grossinger. Like, grossinger01.doc, grossinger02.doc, and so forth. You'd like to change them all to say hotel01.doc, hotel02.doc, and so forth.
So, on the command line, which would show exactly which directory (folder) you were at, you'd type:
change grossinger*.doc hotel*.doc
and hit enter. whereupon every file in that directory (folder) whose filename began with "grossinger" would now begin, instead, with the worth "hotel," Even if there were a hundred such files.
anyway, that was the good old days, in this regard. If there's some way to perform mass changes like this in Windows, I haven't heard about it.
change c:\my documents\grossinger----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:22 PM Subject: Re: jaws topic?
Inside word you can use this function to adapt your list the way you want it. Let's say that the word you are lookintg to eliminate is "alto". In the first box in the control H function you would type "alto". In the next box you would type four spaces, tab to change all and hit enter. The change would take place and the word alto would be eoliminated from the first part of the entry on each line. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:25 PM Subject: Re: jaws topic?
>
> Yardbird,
>
> The control H seems to work inside most any file I have tried it, namely
> note pad, and word pad. Where I would like it to work is on a list. I
> have a folder in "my documents" which contains nearly 100 files the title
> of each begins with the same word. It is the second word that
> distinguishes them from each other. I had hoped that while on the list I
> could use that command to eliminate the first word and replace it with
> nothing so that the second word would be the identifying one. Hope this
> hasn't been too confusing.
>
> Bob S.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: jaws topic?
>
>
>> Which application are you working in when you use this command? The only
>> context I know for this command is MS Word. And I've used Word for a
>> long
>> time, before I needed Jaws, and that command has always been part of
>> Word,
>> allied with the Control F find function.
>> .
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:17 PM
>> Subject: jaws topic?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is control H, the find and replace command a jaws function? If not I'll
>> take my question to another list.
>>
>> Bob S.
>>
>>
>>
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